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How do Internet search engines work?

Have you ever wondered how search engines find web sites so quickly? Professor Javed Mostafa, at Indiana University, Bloomington, explains it in this article. Website - Quote from the website It has been estimated that the amount of textual information accessible via search engines is at least 40 times larger than the digitized content of all the books in the Library of Congress, the world's largest library. It is a challenge to provide access to such a large volume of information, yet current search engines do remarkably well in sifting through the content and identifying related links to queries.

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